Plagued by political infighting, supply disruptions and public resistance, continental Europe is far behind in distributing the vaccine
The Union Health Ministry on Sunday said that the six states of Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharashtra were reported a high number of new single-day Covid-19 cases.
Pakistan has witnessed a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases by 50% ever since the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) eased restrictions late last month, reported Dawn.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India has turned into world's pharmacy and many foreign nations have expressed confidence in the country's medicines during the Covid-19 crisis.
Sri Lanka on Sunday received the first batch of 264,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines provided under the World Health Organisation's COVAX facility
The total number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 116.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.58 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
The Centre has outlined SOPs for vaccination of healthcare workers and frontline staff who could not get registered for it through the CoWIN app for some reasons
The vaccine will be administered on all working days by trained health care workers. Family members of the MPs too will get vaccines
Nepal will administer the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine from April 20 to April 28 to those who have received the first shot of the vaccine from January 27 and February 12.
'You would be flying blind to just use one dose,' a senior scientist and adviser to US President Joe Biden told The Wall Street Journal
Bengaluru civic body commissioner N Manjunath Parasad directed health officers to ramp up Covid vaccine drive as well as increase the testing also and keep a check on rise in the Covid-19 cases.
Three persons in West Bengal were detected with UK's new Covid-19 strain, and one with the Brazilian variant of the coronavirus
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Union minister Nitin Gadkari were administered the COVID-19 vaccine here on Saturday.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday said the state has become the first in the country to have administered more than 2 million Covid-19 vaccines
The huge package its total spending is nearly one-tenth the size of the entire US economy is Biden's biggest early priority
Europe recorded 1 million new Covid-19 cases last week, an increase of 9 per cent from the previous week and a reversal that ended a six-week decline in new infections
In the age bracket of 60 and above, 17,288 people were vaccinated while in the 45-59 years age group, 2,824 beneficiaries received the jabs
According to Health Ministry data, there are over 90,000 active coronavirus cases in Maharashtra
Coronavirus live updates: Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu cumulatively account for 82% of the new cases reported in the past 24 hours. Stay tuned for corona-related news
The last 100,000 cases were reported in just 13 days owing to fresh outbreaks in Vidarbha, Mumbai and Pune